Americans with Disabilities

The Americans with Disabilities Act was designed to prevent any employer, public or private, or any labor union from discriminating against potential employees or members on the basis of a disability. This disability could be real or perceived, and could be physical or mental in nature…

Introduction

Additionally, a potential employer or labor union may not require medical examinations for any position unless that employer requires a medical examination of every candidate for that position. Employers are not required to treat alcohol or drug addiction or abuse as a disability (Facts about the Americans with Disabilities Act).
This legislation is certainly the opposite of the way that disabilities have been handled throughout history. Even as early as the fourth century, hospices were created for such disabilities as blindness (in Caesarea, a city in modern-day Turkey) (Davis 89). Even though disabled persons have made up the largest physical minority in the American population for many years now, though, very little attention has been paid historically to the rights of the disabled. There has also been little attention paid in the academic community to disability studies, a lacuna in academia that is slowly being filled as time goes by (Davis 1). ...

Retaining employment is extremely important for those with psychiatric disabilities because the benefits of employment are not attainable through any other activity alone. Recent plans for improving employment outcomes for people with severe mental illnesses have both practice and policy implications. For example, supported employment is an evidence-based practice (EBT) that addresses the…

Additionally, a potential employer or labor union may not require medical examinations for any position unless that employer requires a medical examination of every candidate for that position. Employers are not required to treat alcohol or drug addiction or abuse as a disability (Facts about the Americans with Disabilities Act).…

Since I'm holding the position of Human Resources Director for National Lewis and Clark Corporation (NL&C) I had to check the employee's responsibilities. I always had to be in contact with my colleagues and subordinates. The Human Resource department is the heart and soul of any organization or company or firm.…

One company that has successfully achieved these goals is Sears. As Blanck (1996) illustrates, Sears' success is due to its evolutionary implementation of the ADA and its two-fold strategy of integration and empowerment, based on a culture that focuses on work force diversity. Through its culture of "workforce diversity and inclusion", which seeks to incorporate the Americans with Disabilities Act…

It simply means we are calling ourselves " abled". The Smith College Office of Student Affairs issued a pamphlet that defines "ableism" as "oppression of the differently abled, by the temporarily abled." The term "differently abled" was "created to underline the concept that differently abled individuals are just that, not less or inferior in any way." "Ageism," according to the pamphlet, is "[o]…

As a preliminary matter, it is necessary to define what is meant by the American with Disabilities Act. This can be a daunting task, given the fact that reasonable people disagree about the scope of the Act's mandate. Most generally, the Act was conceived of as a sort of supplementary legislation for the previously enacted Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act did not address issues such as…

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